-If you need to laugh this weekend,
tune in to SNL. It is going remote.
-"Saturday Night Live" returns
with an all-new episode from home.
-It's gonna be so fascinating
to see them in their element at home.
-I can't wait to see how they pull that off.
-Initially, I was like, "Oh, man!
This is gonna suck!"
[ Laughing ]
[ Cheering and applause ]
-I'm Daniel Craig.
This has been "Saturday Night Live."
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
[ Applause ]
-That last show...
[ Rewinding ]
it didn't feel like we wouldn't be coming back.
There was no indication
that that would kind of be our live show season finale.
-I think I got an email that was just sent to everybody
and they were like, "Hey, we're gonna do it at home now."
-I remember being a little perplexed
as to how we would do it.
-"SNL" is so much chaos.
The one sort of grounding force we have is the audience.
-We do a multicam live sketch show.
So the we feed off of the studio audience.
-The suspect, described as a white male --
-Whew! -Love it!
[ Laughter ]
-The show's always been at 8H.
We've always done it at 30 Rock.
-But, if everyone else is in, I'm in and, I mean, I'm excited
'cause what else am I doing? I'm home.
-This equipment would arrive at our house.
We'd be like, "What is this?
I guess there's a sketch involving a greenscreen."
So, now, we have a greenscreen,
-For the first show. we did a Zoom table read.
-I hope you guys enjoy our table read here
and we'll see what we come up with on Saturday.
This is crazy.
-And one of the sketches we read at the table
was the dating show.
-Hello and welcome to "How Low Will You Go?"
-The most surreal moment -- there was a dating show.
I got up and stood on the side of my little computer area,
waiting for my cue as they were doing the sketch on Zoom
and it feels kind of like the normal show.
You're waiting for your cue.
-Hello-o-o, ladies!
-I just remember having a distinct moment,
thinking like, "I will remember this forever."
-You're setting up a ring light and a greenscreen
and all these things that you don't usually do.
So, then, by the time you're shooting the thing,
you're just overwhelmed.
-It was also crazy because, our first show back,
Hal Willner died.
I just like can't picture working on a sketch
without talking to him.
It was very difficult.
-This was challenging. -It was hard,
but we were in it together, and that was really nice.
-For the SoulCycle sketch,
my next door neighbors yelled lines
in response to my lines.
-It's crazy to think that people could be watching this
anywhere from Los Angeles
to California. -[ Laughs ]
I heard my neighbor say, "Los Angeles is
Like they didn't get that I was shooting a sketch.
[ Knocking ] I knocked on their door.
I was just like, "We're shooting this thing."
I apologize. It won't happen again.
But maybe it will happen again in two weeks."
The first thing I did was I did the Drake song
and the Andre 2000 song.
It was super weird.
We would go outside and dance in the middle of the street
and then like my neighbor would come
and get like his mail and just like look up.
And I'd be like, [ Laughing ] "SNL at Home."
-♪ I'm stuck in the core ♪
♪ Got nothin' to do ♪
-I had this other song that I was workin' on,
that I just, on a whim, sent to Sandler
and he ended up liking it
and then he was just like, "I'm gonna do a verse on this,"
and I was like, "Holy [bleep] This is crazy."
♪ I'm so [bleep] bored, I'm doin' songs with me ♪
♪ Stuck with my fam, I can't get out ♪
-And that is, by far, my favorite like SNL moment
like that I've ever had, for sure.
-♪ And crazy ♪
-It got better as the weeks went on.
-Paul? -Mandy?
-Yeah! Mandy!
-I guess, slowly, things just stopped being as overwhelming.
-And then, the second one, you know,
we cranked it up a notch because, now, we had time
to send wigs out, and send costumes
and it was obvious in that second episode.
-I guess one of the best parts
was how our families got involved.
My seven-year-old son,
he would be in our read-throughs.
-[ Indistinct ]
-It's hard on them, too.
-Like this bitch knows anything.
[ Laughter ]
-We worked on this dad prank sketch.
-So I have a...
[ Electronic voice ]
-Brandon! -[ Electronic voice ]
-I wrote him a thank you.
Right now, it's just kind of annoying
to have to go up and shoot and stuff, but,
when you're older, I think you'll think it's pretty cool
that you got to be a part of this show.
-Watchin' my daughter watch herself
in my intro on the show, she was just beaming.
She just couldn't stop smiling,
that, I mean, I could've cried, watchin' that.
Can you say bye-bye?
-Bye-bye. -Bye-bye!
To see what you do immediately impact your child like that,
that was a very touching moment.
-At-home episodes sort of felt like
we got a job to do here
and it just sort of felt like an experimental thing.
-Especially when Brad Pitt said it, like "Live..."
-...kinda, from all across America,
it's Saturday night.
It's like, "Okay, we're gettin' a glimpse
into an invincibility with the show."
Like whether we do it at 30 Rock or not,
I think we can figure out a way
to get it done.
-For the "Dreams" sketch,
I didn't know what everyone else was doing.
-I had been reading an article about COVID dreams
and how intense they were for people
and I'd had some myself, so I started to think
like what would it be like to see the dreams of the cast,
what they miss and, you know,
maybe what we all sort of miss about New York?
-The director, Paul Briganti, directed over Zoom.
-Alright. And action.
-We did like a read-through of it.
After we finished reading it,
all of us just looked at each other's
little tiles on Zoom and we were like silent.
And then I remember breaking the silence by being like...
I hope everyone has a good summer.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah!
-Seeing the city and us being digitally put into the city
was kinda bittersweet and sad, but, at the same time,
uplifting, seeing us all together again.
-I guess we just never thought that we would get to a point
where we wouldn't be able to have New York.
Walk in Times Square,
be bumped into on Fifth Avenue, or any of that.
It was very emotional.
-Those shows were a nice reminder
that this is still possible, that it was still possible
to sort of be there for each other,
even though we were so separate.
-Getting to watch that episode from the comfort of my home
in New York made me feel so connected to the city.
-Coming off the elevator Saturday night
and seeing a neighbor who was like,
"Are you gonna watch your show?"
[ Laughing ] I was like,
"Yeah. Are you gonna watch it?"
-I'm waiting for us to be able to get back in 30 Rock.
Oh, man. I wish I could get a good night's hug right now.
-I can't wait to go back. I can't wait to go back
and see everybody.
-I'm really like grateful
that we had those three shows.
I won't forget and I'm like appreciative
to have been part of it. -Yay! That was great.
-Yay! [ Laughter ]
[ Static crackles ]
-What I wanna say is
we'll get through this thing together,
but we'll also come out on the other side
with a little more compassion and appreciation
for our world that we live in, you know?
Show some more love to each other,
show some more love to our planet.
That's all I can hope for.